Lara Logan Returns to Work on ’60 Minutes’

By BILL CARTER

June 4, 2014

Lara Logan has quietly returned to work at “60 Minutes,” CBS News confirmed on Wednesday.

The correspondent, as well as her producer, Max McClellan, had been placed on leaves of absence last November after a discredited report on the show about the attacks on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya.

CBS issued only a brief statement saying “Lara Logan has returned to work.”

The news of her return was first reported on Wednesday by The Hollywood Reporter.

Ms. Logan’s once-stellar career at CBS was severely damaged by revelations that her reporting in the “60 Minutes” segment, which appeared on Oct. 27, relied heavily on a self-proclaimed eyewitness to the attack who wound up being thoroughly discredited. He had previously offered a different version of his account when questioned by the F.B.I.

Subsequent questions have been raised, in a New York magazine article and elsewhere, as to whether Ms. Logan should have been allowed to report on the Benghazi incident because she had formed personal conclusions about it, which she revealed in a public speech one year before the report appeared.

At the time she was placed on leave, CBS said Ms. Logan and Mr. McClellan had made “serious errors” in the Benghazi report.